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Open Poetry #18

I drank from the well

desperado
Member

since 1999-05-24

Posts 312
FT Hood,Tx

0 posted 2002-01-07 10:43 PM

long have I dreamed of summers past
and winters long forgotten
of a time when nothing was everything
and everything was nothing
boyish desires so thick and strong
faded away like a summers mist
in the present no one can see the time
as it sprints down the track of reality
to the finish line of life
yet every now and then I pause
to take a glance behind me
at the path I've flown at sonic speeds
and the canyons I carved with my footsteps
and I see a snapshot or two of memories
some easily recognized and others not
and it's at these times of peace and sorrow
that I see the memory I've never had
I see the memory that I've always lived
as I drank from the well of life
I drank often and sparingly
so as to share with those I traveled
smiling and laughing as though that's all I knew
and the tears I cried were never tears
they were the well of life returning
to be shared by all once more
yes I've carried my share of baggage and weight
and been burdened by the choices I've made
but I've never been broken against my will
though at times it was close to call
yet from this well I drank to live
I drank to stay alive
I drank from the well of life
to find the meaning of love
and found that life was inside me
not hiding but never seen
and as I race the track of life
I pause to see the past
life love joy and sorrow
all the same on who you ask
so do what your heart desires
make peace where you find it to be
yet I already know where it is
as I drank from the well of life

People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid. --Soren Kierkegaard

jwesley
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-04-30

Posts 7563
Spring, Texas

1 posted 2002-01-07 10:46 PM

Lot of intospection here my friend. Enjoyed the read and more.

jwesley

Fallon
Junior Member

since 2002-01-07

Posts 21
USA

2 posted 2002-01-07 10:50 PM

some deep writing here.

heather_kitn
Member

since 2001-12-07

Posts 61
In The Kokapelli's Song

3 posted 2002-01-07 11:02 PM

"life love joy and sorrow
all the same on who you ask"

I really liked the message here, and liked the above line the most as it represents "life" itself!

-heather

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